Fire-escape



(No Model.)

H; O. WOODBURY 8v S. T. TEACHER, J1.

FIRE ESCAPE. l No. 326,616. Patented'SeptpZZ, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,o

HEZEKIAH OBER WOODBURY AND SETI-I TRACY THACHER, JR., OFA

BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS.

FIRE-ESCAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,616, dated September 22. 1885.

Application filed July 13, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that we, HEZEKIAH OBER WooDBURY and SE'rH TRACY THACHER, Jr., of Beverly, in the county of Essex, of the Colnmonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fire Escape Attachments; and we do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a side View of a fire-escape of our invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented. Fig. 2 is afrontview, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of the combined hook and snap-hook,to be described as constituting part of our fire-escape.

In such drawings, A denotes a rope, which may be of hemp, metal, or other suitable material. On this rope, at suitable distances apart and fastened firmly to it, is a series of handles or conical frusta, B, the rope going through each of them axially thereof. Each frustum is arranged with its larger base downward, in order that Wh en grasped by the hand of a person the frnstum will serve to prevent slipping o-f the hand upon it. At its upper end the rope has attached to it a combined hook and snap-hook, the hook of which is shown at C and the snap-hook at D, the two being conjoined at their shanks. We make them by bending a rod near its middle around in the form of an eye or ring, d, and crossing one branch, e, of the rod on the other, f, and hooking them, as shown at g and h. The spring a Vescape to a Window-sill.

of the snap-hook we secure to such hook and such shank to that of the other hook by means of a rivet, b, going through such spring and the shanks.

The hook C'can be used for holdingthe lire- The snap-hook can the shank of 35 be hitched upon the rope when it is bent around the leg of a bedstead or other article in the room from a window of which the iireescape may depend. The handles or conio frusta We usually arrange at about eighteen inches apart on the rope, they being to enable aperson to descend on the rope by applying his hands to them in succession.

To the lower end of the rope we attach a bag, E, into which a small child may be placed and lowered from a window before a' person may attemptto escape by descending the rope.

We claim-- The combined hook and snap-hook, substantially as described, consisting of a rod bent in the form of an eye and two hooks and having to one of them a spring secured to both by a rivet going through it and their shanks where they cross each other, all being substantially as set forth, and for use with and application to a rope, having applied to it, as represented, a series of conic frusta, or such and a bag, as specified.

HEZEKIAH- OBER WOODBUR'Y. SETH TRACY TEACHER, JR. Witnesses:

ELLEN HANNAN, HENRY M. MEEK. 

